Edition of the 94 Phaedrus fables with commentaries in French to be used at schools, together with the 5 additional fables by Gudius and the Sententiae of Syrus. After a half-title follow the famous "100 (Aesop) fables", translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno (first ed. 1563; Bodemann, 33,1).
Pope Pius IV, convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children, commissioned Gabriel Faerno, whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity, to versify these fables so that children might learn, at the same time and from the same book, both moral and linguistic purity. Faerno (1510-1561), a scrupulous scholar and Latin poet from Cremona, has been called a second Phaedrus, though he never saw a Phaedrus edition, which did not appear till above thirty years after Faernos death.
Top slightly damaged; some quires somewhat loosened. Cf. Bodemann, 33.1 (first ed.).